An idea from Lives of the Eminent Philosophers

Many of these sayings have more than one owner. Ancient writers gave the same line to different sages and the same comeback to different men. Treat them as stories people passed down about these men.

From Lives of the Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

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